950229 - Add account parameters to /users endpoint in Mozillians.org API

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, defect)

Description

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

We should allow people to search the API for users by any of their account names. I can imagine this being implemented in either of the below ways: 

1) A parameter for each account:
/users/?github=hoosteeno -> me
/users/?bmo=giorgos -> giorgos

2) A parameter for any account:
/users/?has_account_like=hoosteeno -> me 
/users/?has_account_like=matt -> a list of people who have "matt" in github, bmo, skype, or any other account

Does one of those seem better/more feasible?

I think partial text search would be optimal, but not absolutely essential.

This will be a very powerful feature for identity reconciliation and will be immediately useful to efforts to integrate our contributor systems.

Comment 1

[Andrei Hajdukewycz [:sancus]]

https://github.com/mozilla/mozillians/commit/99a8538abc0d163d0fa0a7dd7fe756329e617969

Comment 2

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

Account parameters work as advertised:

GET: https://mozillians.allizom.org/api/v1/users/?app_name=something&app_key=something_else&accounts=hoosteeno

200 OK:
{
  "meta": {
    "limit": 20,
    "next": null,
    "offset": 0,
    "previous": null,
    "total_count": 1
  },
<snip>

Comment 3

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

Mike, BMO accounts can be accessed via the API by using the syntax described in comment 0. 

Tasos or Nemo, could you add this to the API documentation? The Bugzilla team is exploring how to use the BMO account information. Thanks!

Comment 4

[John Giannelos [:nemo-yiannis]]

Hey William!

There is a bug for that here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987423